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Investors with a lot of money to spend have taken a bearish stance on Snowflake (NYSE:SNOW).
And retail traders should know.
We noticed this today when the trades showed up on publicly available options history that we track here at Benzinga.
Whether these are institutions or just wealthy individuals, we don't know. But when something this big happens with SNOW, it often means somebody knows something is about to happen.
So how do we know what these investors just did?
Today, Benzinga's options scanner spotted 11 uncommon options trades for Snowflake.
This isn't normal.
The overall sentiment of these big-money traders is split between 18% bullish and 81%, bearish.
Out of all of the special options we uncovered, 4 are puts, for a total amount of $253,126, and 7 are calls, for a total amount of $1,012,366.
Analyzing the Volume and Open Interest in these contracts, it seems that the big players have been eyeing a price window from $115.0 to $190.0 for Snowflake during the past quarter.
Assessing the volume and open interest is a strategic step in options trading. These metrics shed light on the liquidity and investor interest in Snowflake's options at specified strike prices. The forthcoming data visualizes the fluctuation in volume and open interest for both calls and puts, linked to Snowflake's substantial trades, within a strike price spectrum from $115.0 to $190.0 over the preceding 30 days.
Symbol | PUT/CALL | Trade Type | Sentiment | Exp. Date | Ask | Bid | Price | Strike Price | Total Trade Price | Open Interest | Volume |
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SNOW | CALL | SWEEP | NEUTRAL | 05/10/24 | $4.75 | $4.7 | $4.75 | $150.00 | $440.5K | 257 | 0 |
SNOW | CALL | TRADE | BEARISH | 06/21/24 | $23.85 | $22.55 | $23.07 | $130.00 | $203.0K | 407 | 0 |
SNOW | CALL | SWEEP | BULLISH | 05/03/24 | $3.8 | $3.75 | $3.8 | $150.00 | $180.4K | 197 | 17 |
SNOW | PUT | SWEEP | BEARISH | 05/03/24 | $10.65 | $9.2 | $10.35 | $155.00 | $103.2K | 343 | 108 |
SNOW | PUT | TRADE | NEUTRAL | 06/21/24 | $47.9 | $42.9 | $45.29 | $190.00 | $63.4K | 601 | 14 |
Founded in 2012, Snowflake is a data lake, warehousing, and sharing company that came public in 2020. To date, the company has over 3,000 customers, including nearly 30% of the Fortune 500 as its customers. Snowflake's data lake stores unstructured and semistructured data that can then be used in analytics to create insights stored in its data warehouse. Snowflake's data sharing capability allows enterprises to easily buy and ingest data almost instantaneously compared with a traditionally months-long process. Overall, the company is known for the fact that all of its data solutions that can be hosted on various public clouds.
2 market experts have recently issued ratings for this stock, with a consensus target price of $185.0.
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